Based on suggestion I dropped debugger before this line to check what item actually is via the node repl debugger. ¬†This is what I found : http://hastebin.com/qatireweni.sm

From this I tried console.log(item._doc.title) and it works just fine.. So, this seems more like a mongoose question now than anything.

There are questions similar to this, but they seem to be related to 'this' accessing of objects or they're trying to get the object outside the scope of the function. ¬†In this case, I don't think I'm doing either of those, but inform me if I'm wrong. Thanks
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